The U.S. Coast Guard has plans to build 25 Heritage Class Offshore Patrol Cutters, including four now slated to be homeported at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. (Courtesy of Eastern Shipbuilding Group)
The number of new U.S. Coast Guard cutters destined to call Naval Station Newport home has doubled, Rhode Island’s U.S. Sen. Jack Reed announced Tuesday.
Two sets of 360-foot twin U.S. Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutters — not the one set Reed’s office originally announced in 2020 — will be based on Aquidneck Island. Each of the new cutters will be built by Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama…